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Originally Posted by Jacques Q.
Very interesting, I never heard of that method. Does it mean that if I have an EPub of some book and I just change its file extension to .txt or .png and then send it with Send to Kindle it will not only not be rejected but shown without the formatting issues of the recent Amazon conversion system ? (I tried again yesterday, sent the same book as Mobi and Epub : on arrival Mobi was perfect, ex-EPub as converted by Amazon had issues starting on page 1 - like weird characters instead of a plain apostrophe for instance.)
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Amazon has long supported the conversion of EPUBs sent via email but until recently the file extension “.epub” was blocked. It could be tricked by just changing the file name so that it used a supported extension.
Conversion still occurs using Amazon’s kindlegen software. That tool was developed for use by publishers. It has some quirks that you need to deal with.
First, EPUBs use UTF-8 character encoding. Kindlegen assumes that HTML uses Latin-1 character encoding if the encoding is missing. This is a holdover from Mobipocket and unlikely to change.
Second, Amazon requires the logical table of contents to follow the same sequence as the content of the book and not contain any broken links. A surprising number of EPUBs fail this criteria.
There are other issues but they are much less common.